14th century in philosophy

Events

• 1324 - William of Ockham was ordered to Avignon to defend his interpretation of Peter Lombard's Sentences before the papal court.
• 1365 - The University of Vienna was founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria.
• 1370 - A Vietnamese Confucian mandarin, Lê Quát, unsuccessfully attempted to have Buddhism, the favoured religion of the Trần dynasty, declared heretical.
• 1384 - Ibn Khaldun became Professor of the Qamhiyyah Madrasah in Egypt.

Publications

• 1323 - The Summa Logicae, William of Ockham.
• 1377 - The Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun.
• 1390 - Iphak doseol, Kwŏn Kŭn.
• 1397 - Sambong chip, Chŏng Tojŏn.

Births

• 1320 - Albert of Saxony, German philosopher and mathematician.
• 1328 - Yi Saek, Korean writer, poet and philosopher at Sungkyunkwan academy.
• 1332 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab Islamic scholar, philosopher, historian and sociologist.
• 1337 - Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean statesman, diplomat, philosopher, poet, calligrapher and reformist of the Goryeo period.
• 1342 - Chŏng Tojŏn, Korean scholar-official during the late Goryeo to the early Joseon periods.
• 1352 - Kwŏn Kŭn, one of the first Neo-Confucian scholars of the Joseon dynasty.
• 1353 - Kil Chae, Korean scholar-official near the end of the Goryeo dynasty.
• 1380 - Nguyễn Trãi, Vietnamese Confucian scholar, poet and politician.
• 1396 - Chŏng Inji, Korean historian and Neo-Confucian scholar.

Deaths

• 1306 - An Hyang, Korean Confucian scholar.
• 1308 - John Duns Scotus, Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher and theologian.
• 1316 - Pietro d'Abano, Italian philosopher, astrologer, physician and professor of medicine in Padua.
• 1316 - Ramon Llull, philosopher, theologian and poet from Parma.
• 1317 - Purna Prajna, Indian philosopher, theologian and proponent of the Dvaita school of Vedanta.
• 1322 - Petrus Aureoli, scholastic philosopher and theologian.
• 1328 - Meister Eckhart, German Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher and mystic.
• 1333 - Wú Chéng, Neo-Confucian thinker in the late Song dynasty and Yuan dynasty.
• 1342 - U T'ak,, Korean Neo-Confucian scholar and philosopher during the Goryeo dynasty.
• 1345 - Cheng Duanli, Neo-Confucian scholar of the Yuan Dynasty.
• 1347 - Abner of Burgos, Castilian polemical writer and Jewish philosopher who converted to Christianity.
• 1347 - William of Ockham, Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, apologist, and theologian from Surrey.
• 1358 - Adam of Wodeham, English philosopher and theologian.
• 1370 - Chu Văn An, Confucian, teacher, physician, and high-ranking mandarin of the Trần dynasty in Đại Việt.
• 1390 - Albert of Saxony, German philosopher and mathematician.
• 1391 - Mādhavācārya, Indian scholar usually identified with Vidyaranya, the jagadguru of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham from 1374-1380 until 1386.
• 1392 - Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean statesman, diplomat, philosopher, poet, calligrapher and reformist of the Goryeo period.
• 1396 - Yi Saek, Korean, writer, poet and philosopher at Sungkyunkwan academy.
• 1398 - Chŏng Tojŏn, Korean scholar-official during the late Goryeo to the early Joseon periods.